I've read that when the Lovings, the namesakes of Loving Day in the US, were arrested for 'unlawful cohabitation' in 1958, the judge gave them the choice of imprisonment for one year, or banishment from the state of Virginia. Was this a common sentence at that time? Was the judge being harsh or lenient? How difficult would it have been for them to resettle elsewhere?

One of the characters of the fourth season of "Stranger Things" is a pilot flying a small plane between the Soviet Union and Alaska on a regular basis, having a business office at a US airfield. A few questions about this:

1. Was travel between the USSR and the USA legally permitted by the USSR? Was it legally permitted by the USA?
2. How common was this travel in the 1980s? How common was it between Alaska and Kamchatka?
3. Were Soviet citizens allowed to run cross-border business as depicted on the TV show? Is there any estimate of how many Soviet citizens ran such operations?

The Nine Muses—deities of poetry (in different varieties), dance, astrology, history. But something seems to be missing. We know that the Greeks valued visual arts as well, so why was there no Muse assigned as the patron of painting or sculpture? Were they seen as being different in kind from the arts which the other Muses represent?

It seems like such a historical wildcard that the teachings of a small-town Judean rabbi ultimately came to be the dominant religion of the Roman Empire. Why did Christianity rise to the fore instead of, say, Mithraism or Manichaeism? Was this largely the Apostle Paul's doing or was there something innately attractive about Christianity to Roman power players? Thanks in advance!

What would happen if a kamikaze pilot decided to not go through with the suicidal attack? If they returned would they very likely have been executed? What were the procedures in place to deal with such a thing?

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Well, that... I had that doubt about it while I was watching a movie.

Is there any information about children born during the captivity of their parents?

Did they just kill them?

They became slaves?

Did society as a whole (or any particular couple) adopt them as part of it?

If the latter: Did they let their biological parents raise them until a certain age or were they taken away at birth?

Some broader vision also interests me, such as other cultures with slaves at the time.

Thanks!

Pre WW2 to be specific.

Why are Jewish people hated in the first place?

Why was the concept of dragons popular among many cultures that are very different and geographically far apart? For example, why is the idea of dragons conceptually similar (great, reptilian, fire-breathing creatures) in cultures in places such as Wales and China, despite being very far apart in almost every other way?

Perhaps this is anachronistic, but looking at the current operation of the US government it seems that a committed political group, even one that is not necessarily a majority can block substantial political changes.

With this in mind why was the southern planter class so frightened by Lincoln's election? The democrats still held a (narrow) majority in the senate and Taney was still the Chief Justice.

Why was succession seen as necessary when obstruction could easily have punted things down the road for decades?

And is it worth reading if interested in History? I do enjoy history books but in today's age of misinformation or new and more accurate info, I wanted to make sure it wasn't wildy out there. Apologies if this isn't correct for this sub.

I have recently heard a very bold statement that for the past 5 centuries (maybe more), Russia has only won wars when when it fought side by side with Ukraine. And the only war it won without Ukraine was the 2008 war with Georgia.

The implication here obviously is that the Ukrainians are good at war. So good in fact, that Russians always needed them to win or at least to assist a victory.

May I ask a historian to corroborate or or debunk that?

Thank you in advance!

Is the joke here that "he's a racist hick, oglf course he voted Democrat", or "he's a racist hick who's so stupid that he's still voting Democrat"?

If you’ve seen it, what does it get right(if anything) and what does it get wrong?

Some of the greatest emperors such as Augustus, Trajan, Aurelian and Diocletian were deified as pagan gods, building the Pantheon and other massive pagan temples and conquering what would later be called the Holy Land. Was there a renunciation of all the great pagan emperors, or did they attempt to distance them from paganism and consider them "honorary Christians" in a sense?

Forgive the snarky title, and I shouldn't be surprised by this, but I'm encountering a lot of frustration when trying to find decent books on the assassination of JFK that don't immediately dive into conspiracy with aplomb.

I'm fine with books that focus on the conspiracy bits as an aside or that interrogate them historically, but the vast majority of the ones I've come across have sounded like lesser Oliver Stone movies.

Was it simply a reaction to shamanism, or were there some misunderstood incidents? Do we know if the Finns, Tavastians, and Karelians held the same view of the Sámi?

Pilgrim almost got wiped out because they didn't have food.